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Date of Birth Issues There are several key factors that make you eligible for Social Security benefits and help determine the amount of money you are due. One of the most important is your date of birth. Because you have to be a precise age to qualify for retirement benefits (e.g., 66 for full benefits or 62 for reduced benefits), you have to prove your date of birth to the Social Security Administration. When I started working for SSA back in the early 1970s, this wasn’t always a simple process. Many people retiring back then (these would have been folks born in the early 1900s) did not have a birth certificate. And I don’t mean they lost it or couldn’t find it. I mean their birth was never recorded in official government records. So we had to resort to creative ways to help people prove their date of birth. For example, we would search church, school or census records. It’s a different story today. Almost everyone eligible for Social Security at this point in the 21st century was born at a time when births were routinely recorded with local, county or state government agencies. So providing a birth certificate to SSA is usually a fairly routine matter. But today’s questions concern date of birth issues that are not necessarily so routine.

I always thought I was born on Jan. 1, 1955. And that’s what my birth certificate shows. But I was just told a ver y interesting stor y by a ver y old aunt -- my mother’s sister. She told me that I was actually born on the night of Dec. 31, 1954 -- just a few minutes before midnight. She said that the hospital administrators in the small town in Nebraska where I was born, in secret collusion with my mother, fudged the hour and date of birth on my birth certificate in order to make it appear that I was born in the first couple minutes of Jan. 1, 1955. I thus became the first baby of the New Year in our town. Apparently, the hospital got some much-needed publicity for their newly established birthing clinic, and my parents got several prizes from local merchants. My aunt told me that my mother was so embarrassed by her actions that she never told anyone except her sister (my aunt) this stor y. My mom took this secret to her grave! What are the Social Security ramifications of this?

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Wow! What a fascinating story. And that’s all it is -- at least for now -- just a story. Your official birth certificate shows you were born on Jan. 1, 1955, and that is what SSA is going to use as your date of birth in its records. Actually, there are a couple of advantages to being born one year earlier -- in your case, in 1954. One has to do with your full retirement age -- the age at which you would be eligible for 100 percent of your retirement benefit. For people born in 1954, that age is 66. But for people born in 1955, it is 66 and two months. The other has to do with Social Security’s retirement benefit formula. It is way too complicated to explain in the short space of this column, but being born in 1954 would mean a few extra bucks

in your monthly Social Security retirement check. My 84-year-old father just died. Take my word for it. We just got his death certificate, and we were So normally I would suggest that you think surprised to learn that it lists his date of about trying to get your birthdate changed by con- birth as Jan. 22, 1933. But all of his life, tacting the registrar in the county or state where we thought he was born on Jan. 22, 1934. your birth certificate resides. (Although unless After talking to my mother, we were shocked you have other evidence, it is doubtful they would to learn that dad had some problems in his amend your birth record based only on your aunt’s early years and may have somehow messed allegation.) up his date of birth on official records, in But because of a strange little twist in the cluding Social Security records. Is this glitch law, you don’t have to worry about that. And the going to cause any problems when my mom twist says that you attain your legal age on the day tries to claim widow’s benefits on dad’s acpreceding your birthday. For most of us, that has count? no consequences. I was born on June 22, and the fact that I legally attain my age on June 21 is mean- As I explained at the beginning of this ingless. column, SSA is pretty meticulous about establish But it is full of meaning -- at least for So- ing the correct date of birth when someone apcial Security purposes -- if you were born on the plies for Social Security benefits. In other words, 1st. For example, Sue was born on Sept. 1, 1952, when your dad first signed up for his Social Secuand wants her benefits to start when she turns 66 rity, they would have secured some kind of birth in September of this year. She actually can get a record that proved he wasMon., born on Jan. 22, 1934. 9/11/2017 check for August because she legally turns 66 on I have no idea why his death certificate Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric Aug. 31. shows he was born in 1933. But it’s a moot point. Contact Tidbits representative immediately withbe changes And it is extra meaningful if you were bornyourYour mother’s widow’s benefits will not affect- or corre on Jan. 1, as in your case. Your birth certificate ed by that littleemail: glitch.valleybits@msn.com Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-3 shows you were born Jan. 1, 1955, but you legally * * * attain your age on Dec. 31, 1954. So you are going If you have a Social Security question, Tom to get all the Social Security advantages of being Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marborn in 1954 even though your birth certificate genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columnsCo. and see features from ADVERTISING PROOF Gee-Ar-Gee Construction shows you were born in 1955. Weird, huh?

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Enclosed is a photo of a hot chocolate pot with six matching cups and saucers. Each piece is decorated with berries, leaves and gold against a white background and marked with the word “Sevres.” Any information you can provide will be appreciated.

Sevres China Company made your hot chocolate set. It was located in East Liverpool, Ohio, from 1900 to 1908. The pottery had a series of names, beginning with Agner, and then F o u t s and Co., and then Agner and Gaston. In 1887, it was the Sebring P o t t e r y, and finally it became Sevres Sevres China Company was located C h i n a in East Liverpool, Ohio. Company. It produced semi-porcelain hotel ware, dinnerware, and tea and hot chocolate sets. Your hot chocolate set would probably be worth $100 to $150. * * *

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Pianos (from page page 3) Steinweg Americanized his name to Henry E. Steinway and his family received their first piano patent in 1857. They began building pianos one by one. • The Steinway is the choice of 98% of concert pianists. A new Steinway 9-ft. concert grand will set you back between $160,000 and $200,000. • At one time, the honor of world’s longest grand piano belonged to an 11' 8"-long instrument manufactured by the Charles H. Challen Company in 1935. It weighed over 2 tons. • In 2005, at age 16, New Zealand teenager Adrian Mann decided to build a piano entirely by hand, working in a farm shed. Four years later, the result was an amazing instrument measuring 18' 7" in length. After a nationwide tour of New Zealand, the piano returned home to Mann’s workshop, now available for public view. • The first electric piano was introduced in the late 1940s. Metal tines replaced the strings and an electromagnetic pickup head similar to those on electric guitars was used. Digital pianos were brought to the market in 1980. Established in 1887, Yamaha, Japan’s first piano manufacturer, introduced its popular Clavinova digital piano in 1985. • Canadian manufacturer Heintzman Pianos built the official piano for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Chinese pianist Lang Lang played the 9-ft. Crystal Piano for the first time at opening ceremonies. The instrument was later sold at auction for $3.22 million, making it the most expensive piano in the world. 

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